Tom Bruggere (born February 18, 1946, in Berkeley, California[1]) is an American entrepreneur and politician from Oregon.
[4] Bruggere was an engineer with Burroughs Corporation Medium Systems Plant in Pasadena, California, in the early to mid-1970s, then with Tektronix, Inc. in the late 1970s.
"[3] Bruggere won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat vacated by the retiring Mark Hatfield in 1996.
[11] Bruggere's Republican opponent, Gordon Smith, was also heavily self-financed, having spent $2.5 million of his own money earlier that same year in an unsuccessful effort to defeat Democrat Ron Wyden in the special election to replace Bob Packwood, who had resigned.
[2] As of 2011, he was part of the management team of 13therapeutics, a biotech spin-off of the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).